HOW TO GIVE THE DESTRUCTIVE YOUTH OF LATIN AMERICA SOMETHING
MORE WORTHY THAN GANGS AND CARTELS.

SAVING the BIOSPHERE

The first Eco Team - 1991.

This photo was under muddy water for three days in a 1998 flood. Once very rare, flooding has become a yearly phenomenon in Bolivia, due to deforestation.

THE ECO TEAMS

The Amazon eco-teams address all the major problems of third world societies at once. They protect the natural environment, improve rural villages, offer jobs to the vagrant and unemployed, and raise individual self-esteem while establishing good habits. Trials with the eco-teams in the Amazon rainforest between 1990 and 2002 proved highly favorable.

You change culture by changing VALUES. No government will save nature while slave to the "economic bottom line".

First in the Amazon

THE CHAIN OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Besides their village improvement work, the teams are the bottom rung and broad base of the pyramid of accountability. They inform the Earthgarden leadership of what's happening to nature in their area.

Teams do not confront polluters and forest-destroyers personally. They pass the news to a higher level, where it's handled from above.